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Recent Examples of cow town
What was once just a sleepy little ‘cow town’ in Central California, has now become one of the trendiest wine regions to visit, along with national wine sales that are outperforming the rest of the market.
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Liz Thach, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
If Great Bend failed to achieve the notoriety of Dodge City or other cow towns, Moses’s fellow citizens gave him much of the credit.
—Katy Roberts, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
And while Livingston is far from a cow town — more like a fancy-fly-rod-and-real-estate town — Campione still stands out.
—Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
In the sporting world, all eyes were on tiny Shelby, Montana, a two-block cow town where on July Fourth heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler, would defend this title against Tommy Gibbons.
—Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023
In proud but struggling little communities throughout rural Northern California, grand old hotels hark back to when these places were booming Gold Rush towns, timber towns and cow towns.
—Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
Peoria morphed from cow town to boom town, tripling in population to about 190,000 today.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
Daruszka, who speaks on rail topics at libraries and local historical societies, is leading a campaign to make more people aware of how railroads fueled Chicago’s explosive growth from frontier cow town to America’s third largest city.
—Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2021
Not a shining city on a hill, but a little cow town in the mountains.
—Erin Sood, Dallas News, 1 July 2021
Liz Thach, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
If Great Bend failed to achieve the notoriety of Dodge City or other cow towns, Moses’s fellow citizens gave him much of the credit.
—Katy Roberts, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
And while Livingston is far from a cow town — more like a fancy-fly-rod-and-real-estate town — Campione still stands out.
—Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
In the sporting world, all eyes were on tiny Shelby, Montana, a two-block cow town where on July Fourth heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler, would defend this title against Tommy Gibbons.
—Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023
In proud but struggling little communities throughout rural Northern California, grand old hotels hark back to when these places were booming Gold Rush towns, timber towns and cow towns.
—Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
Peoria morphed from cow town to boom town, tripling in population to about 190,000 today.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
Daruszka, who speaks on rail topics at libraries and local historical societies, is leading a campaign to make more people aware of how railroads fueled Chicago’s explosive growth from frontier cow town to America’s third largest city.
—Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2021
Not a shining city on a hill, but a little cow town in the mountains.
—Erin Sood, Dallas News, 1 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cow town
Noun
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Young Alfred Tennyson grew up in a similarly provincial bit of England, tucked away in his father’s vicarage on a remote part of the east coast of England in a village of fewer than a hundred souls.—
Kathryn Hughes,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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But for Perez and others at the motel, the organizations have assembled a spontaneous network of like-minded people that have created a village of care.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The entire hamlet can operate only if Flores’ regular gasoline deliveries make it through on Highway 1 every two weeks.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Apr. 2026
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The hamlet of Anseillan can be seen from the windows of Château Lafite Rothschild.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Cow town.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cow%20town. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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